Our Vision
Memorial Geography will be at the forefront of building connections with our dynamic societies and environments, and become the beating heart of collaborative and cooperative knowledge within and beyond the university.
Come study the world with us! The Department of Geography celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020-21 and remains the only comprehensive geography program in Atlantic Canada, offering BA, BSc., Honours, MA, MSc., and PhD programs. At Memorial, Geography aims to teach students how to investigate environmental and human systems using interdisciplinary, field-informed concepts and approaches. Our Faculty teach students theories, methods and analytical techniques applicable to a wide range of questions and broad spectrum of occupations and to foster a spirit of inquiry about geography. Our research encompasses local, national, and international interests, including climate change, Arctic communities, coastal governance, electronic waste, immigration, marine habitat mapping, microplastics pollution, resource development, and urban development. Visit our Research and Faculty pages to learn more, and read our most recent Research Report.
News
The Community Based Research Lab is excited to welcome
Dr. Josh Lepawsky, Department of Geography, Memorial University,
"Mapping the 'tech right' through a discard studies lens"
The 'tech right' is a shorthand term increasingly used to describe a political formation associated with Silicon Valley billionaires, their thought shapers, and the Trump administration. Members of this political formation are—and have been for some time—engaged in what could be described as two linked projects, one negative and one positive, but both involving mappings of various kinds. Their negative project is about delineating what the tech right explicitly calls 'The Enemy'; their positive project delineates geographic imaginaries about how social order ought to be arranged.
This talk will take place
Friday, November 7 at 11am-12.00pm PDT.
Online on Zoom CBRL Conversations and in person at the David Turpin Building at University of Victoria.
Arn Keeling, MUN Geography, and John Sandlos, MUN History, speak about their new book, The Price of Gold, which traces the troubling history of Giant Mine and its toxic legacy.
"Giant Mine always stood out to us as being a special case."
(further coverage)
Northern News Services Limited
Angela Carter (Political Science) and Joel Finnis (Geography) comment on the PC leader saying that he doesn’t believe there’s a connection between the oil industry and the province's recent wildfires.
"If we want to have any chance at slowing down the climate crisis, we have to stop new exploration and we have to phase down existing production as well as the use of fossil fuels."